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A35221	The English acquisitions in Guinea & East-India containing first, the several forts and castles of the Royal African Company, from Sally in South Barbary, to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa ... secondly, the forts and factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia, India, Sumatra, China, &c. ... : with an account of the inhabitants of all these countries ... : also the birds, beasts, serpents and monsters and other strange creatures found there ... : likewise, a description of the Isle of St. Helena, where the English usually refresh in their Indian voyages by R.B.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1700 (1700)	Wing C7318; ESTC R21090	118,185	190

Moon But this and much more must be left to the Criticks as well as the following Relation of our little Eye-witness and great Discoverer which you shall have in his own Spanish Style and delivered with that Grandeur and thirst of Glory which is generally imputed to that Nation It is known to all the Countries of Andaluzia that I Domingo Gonsales was born of a Noble Family in the renowned City of Sevil My Fathers name being Therando Gonsales near kinsman on the Mothers side to Don Pedro Sanches the worthy Count of Almanera My Mother was the Daughter of the famous Lawyer Otho Perez de Sallaveda Governour of Barcellona and Corrigidor of Biscay I being the youngest of seventeen Children was put to School and designed to the Church But Heaven purposing to use my Service in matters of far another Nature inspired me with spending some time in the Wars It was at the time that Don Ferando the renowned Duke D' Alva was sent into the Low Countreys in 1568. I then following the current of my desire leaving the University of Salamanea whither my Parents had sent me without giving notice to any of my Friends got through France to Antwerp where I arrived in a mean condition For having sold my Books Bedding and other things which yielded me about 30 Duckets and borrowed twenty more of my Fathers Friends I bought a little Nag wherewith I travelled more thriftily than usually young Gentlemen do till arriving within a League of Antwerp some of the cursed Gueses set upon me and bereaved me of my Horse Money and all so I was forc'd through necessity to enter into the Service of Marshal Cossey a French Nobleman whom I served in an honourable imploy though mine Enemies to my disgrace affirm I was his Horse-keepers Boy But for that matter I refer my self to Count Mansfield and other Persons of condition who have often testified to many worthy men the very truth of the business which indeed was this Monsieur Cossey being about this time sent to the Duke D' Alva Governour of the Low Countreys he understanding the Nobility of my Birth and my late misfortune judging it would be no small honour to him to have a Spaniard of that Quality about him furnished me with a Horse Arms and whatever I wanted using my Service after I had learned French in writing his Letters because my Hand was very fair In time of War if upon necessity I sometime dressed my own Horse I ought not to be reproacht therewith since I count it the part of a Gentleman to submit to the vilest Office for the Service of his Prince The first expedition I was in was when the Marshal my Friend met the Prince of Orange making a Road into France and forced him to fly even to the Walls of Cambray It was my good Fortune to defeat a Trooper by killing his Horse with my Pistol who falling upon his Leg could not stir but yielded to my mercy I knowing my own weakness of Body and seeing him a lusty tall Fellow thought it the surest way to dispatch him which having done I plundered him of a Chain Money and other things to the value of 200 Ducats This Money was no sooner in my Pockets but I resumed the remembrance of my Nobility and taking my audience of leave from Monsieur Gossey I instantly repaired to the Duke D' Alva's Court where divers of my Kindred seeing my Pocket full of good Crowns were ready enough to acknowledge me By their means I was received into pay and in time obtained favour with the Duke who would sometimes jest a little more severely at my Personage than I could well bare for though I must acknowledge my Stature is so little as I think no man living is less yet since it is the work of Heaven and not my own he ought not to have upbraided a Gentleman therewith And those glorious things that have happened to me may evince that wonderful matters may be performed by very unlikely Bodies if the mind be good and Fortune second our endeavours Though the Dukes joques a little disgusted me yet I endeavoured to conceal my re●…entment and accommodating my self to some other of his humors I was so far interested in his favour that at his going into Spain whither I attended him by his kindness and other accidents wherein by my Industry I was seldom wanting to my self I was able to carry home 3000 Crowns in my Pocket At my return my Parents who were extreamly disturbed at my departure received me with joy which was increased because they found I had brought wherewith to maintain my self without being chargeable to them or lessening the Portions of my Brothers and Sisters But doubting I would spend it as lightly as I got it they sollicited me to marry the Daughter of Iohn Figueres a considerable Merchant of Lisbon to which I complied and putting my Marriage Money and good part of my own into the hands of my Father I lived like a Gentleman many years very happily At length a quarrel-arising between me and Pedro Delgades a Gentleman and Kinsman of mine it grew so high that when no mediation of Friends could prevail we two went alone with our Swords into the Field where it was my chance to kill him though a stout proper man but what I wanted in strength I supplied in courage and my agility countervailed for his Stature This being acted in Carmona I fled to Lisbon thinking to conceal my self with some Friends of my Father in Law till the business might be accommodated At which time a famous Spanish Count coming from the West Indies published Triumphant Declarations of a great Victory he had obtained against the English near the Isle of Pines whereas in reality he got nothing at all in that Voyage but blows and a considerable loss It had been well if vanity and lying had been his only crimes His covetousness had like to have been my utter ruin though since it hath proved the occasion of Eternizing my name I verily believe to all Posterity and to the unspeakable benefit of all Mortals for ever hereafter at least if it please Heaven that I return home safe to my Countrey and give perfect Instructions how those almost incredible and impossible Acquirements may be imparted to the World You shall then see men flying in the Air from one place to another you shall then be able to send Messages many hundred miles in an instant and receive answers immediately without the help of any Creature upon Earth You shall then presently impart your mind to your Friend though in the most remote and obscure place of a populous City and a multitude of other notable Experiments But what exceeds all you shall then have the discovery of a New World and abundance of rare and incredible secrets of Nature which the Philosophers of former Ages never so much as dreamt of But I must be cautious in publishing these wonderful mysteries till our

Egypt and other places wherein he behaved himself with such dexterity that he much increased his Masters Wealth and his own Estimation Of Person he is said to be low and withal Scald-headed but otherwise comely and of good aspect Much troubled with the Falling sickness which Infirmity he made good use of afterward affirming those Fits were nothing but heavenly Raptures in which he conversed with the Angel Gabriel He is likewise said to have been well Skill'd in Magick by which he taught a white Pigeon to feed at his Ear which he declared was the Holy Ghost by whom he was instructed in the Law he was to publish but this not till afterwards By Sorcerie comeliness of Person and the great knowledge he had in his Masters business he gained so far on the Affections of his Mistriss that upon the death of Abdal she made him her Husband Possessed of all his Masters Wealth he affected Ease and being till then of no Religion or at least a Pagan he began to hearken to Sergius a Nestorian Monk who flying out of Syria for fear of punishment the Heresies of Nestorius being newly both revived and censured came into Arabia where he found Entertainment in the House of Mahomet By his perswasions who found him a fit Instrument for the Devil to work on he began to entertain thoughts of hammering out a new Religion which might unite all Parties in some common Principles and bring the Christians Iews and Gentiles into which the World was then divided under one Profession Resolv'd on this he retir'd to a Cave not far from Mecca as if he there attended only Contemplation Sergius in the mean time Trumpeting in the Ears of the People both his Parts and Piety who being thus prepared to behold the Pageant out comes the principal Actor with some parts of his Alcoron pleasing enough to sensual Minds which he professed to have received from the Angel Gabriel And finding that this edified to his Expectation he next proclaimed Liberty to all Slaves and Servants as a thing commanded him by God by whom the natural Liberty of Mankind was most dearly tendred which drew to him such a Rabble of unruly People that without Fear or Opposition he dispersed his Doctrines reducing them at last to a Book or Method The Book of this Religion he calleth the Alcoran or Collestion of Precepts the Original whereof they feign is written on a Table kept in Heaven and the Copy brought to Mahomet by the Angel Gabriel A Book so highly reverenced by the Mahometans that they write upon the Cover of it Let none touch this but he that is clean The Body of it as it now standeth was Composed by Osman the fourth Caliph or Governour who seeing the Saracens daily inclining to divers Heresies by reason of some false Copies of Mahomet's Law and that the Empire by the same means was likely to fall into civil dissention by the help of his Wife who was Mahomet's Daughter he got a sight of all Mahomet's Papers which he reduced into four Volumes and divided it into 124 Chapters commanding expresly upon pain of death that that Book and that only should be received as Canonical through his Dominions The whole body of it being only a Gloss and Exposition on Eight of the Commandments First Every one ought to believe that God is a great God and one only God and Mahomet is his Prophet They hold Abraham to be the Friend of God Moses the Messenger of God and Christ the Breath of God whom they deny to be conceived of the Holy Ghost affirming that the Virgin Mary grew with Child of him by smelling to a Rose and was delivered of him at her Breasts They deny the Mistery of the Trinity but punish such as speak against Christ whose Religion was not say they taken away but amended by Mahomet and whoever in his Pilgrimage to Mecca doth not visit the Sepulchre of Christ either going or coming is reputed not to have merited or bettered himself by his Journey 2. Every Man must Marry to increase the Disciples of Mahomet Four Wives he allows to every Man and as many Concubines as he will between whom the Husband makes no difference either in Affection or Apparel but that the first Wife only enjoys his Sabbath days Benevolence The Women are not admitted while alive into their Churches nor after death into Paradise And whereas in most other Countries Fathers give some Portions with their Daughters the Mahometans give Money for their Wives which being once paid the Contract is Registred in the Cadies Book and this is all their formality of Marriage 3. Every one must give of his Wealth to the Poor Hence some buy Slaves and set them free others buy Birds and let them fly They use commonly to release Prisoners and Bond-slaves To build Caves or Lodgings in the ways for relief of Passengers Repair Bridges and mend High-ways But their most ordinary Alms consists in Sacrifices of Sheep and Oxen which when the Solemnity is perform'd they distribute amongst the Poor to whom also on the first Day of every Year they are bound to give the Tyth or Tenth part of their Profits the Year past so that there are scarce any Beggars among them 4. Every one must make his Prayers five times a Day When they pray they turn their Bodies towards Mecca but their Faces sometimes one way and sometimes another believing that Mahomet shall come behind them while at their Devotions The first time is an hour before Sun rising the second at Noon-day the third at three a Clock Afternoon the fourth at Sun-setting the fifth and last before they go to sleep At all these times the Cryers bawl in the Steeples for the Turks and Saracens have no Bells for the People to come to Church and such as cannot must when they hear the Voice of the Cryers fall down in the place where they are do their Devotions and kiss the Ground thrice 4. Every one must keep a Lent one month in a Year This Lent is called Ramazan in which they suppose the Alcoran was given to Mahomet by the Angel Gabriel This Fast is only in the day time their Law allowing them to be as Frolick in the Night as they please so they abstain from Wine and Swines Flesh which is prohibited in their Law at all times but never so strictly abstained from as in Lent 6. Be obedient to thy Parents Which Law is most neglected of any in all the Alcoran never any Children being generally so nnnatural as the Turkish 7. Thou shalt not Kill This they keep inviolate amongst themselves but the poor Christians are sure to feel their Fury And as if by this Law the actual shedding of blood only were prohibited they have invented Punishments for their Offenders worse than death As first the Strappado which is hanging them by the Arms drawn backward and then drawn up on high and letting down again with a violent swing which unjointeth all their